Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
I knew I was happy when I was dancing.
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.