It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.