I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have..

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012..

Glibness will get your anywhere..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy..

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate..

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry..

A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them..

Africa is on the rise..

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge..

There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version….

It is true, I thought. I am living a life..

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

You dig in and you find something..

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does..

We are the other of the other.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?.

Knowledge isn't always good for you..