People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.

I don’t know what the secret is. We’re a family… We all love each other… and we’ve all worked through whatever issues there’ve ever been, and in a healthy way. So, we all get along. Love conquers all, I guess.

A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to become an actor. Then people have to make those choices for themselves and their art and what they believe in.

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.