Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

Money is just something to be circulated.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.