I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.