Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.