If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.