You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

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

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

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

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.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

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.