I want to find things that challenge me.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.