The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.