If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.

I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.

I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.

This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.