Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to start with someone so close.

You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.