All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize. So if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.