10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.