I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.