'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and Westworld, where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.