You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.