By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.