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The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.

Theatre has always been my passion. It never happened to me that theatre took a back seat in my life. I have never stopped doing it even after joining the film industry, and I intend to perform it lifelong.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

No actor can rise above the script of the film.

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.

It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.

I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'

How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

Great African-American stars who can command major theatre and film roles in successful international projects are not uncommon: James Earl Jones, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg and Jamie Foxx, to name just a few.

I didn't debut in a film playing a diva.

I will never do a usual film with song and dance; the character has to be important.

I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.