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.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.