"I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films."

"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."

"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith."

"Fight the power that be. Fight the power."

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."

"Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular."

"A manager doesn't hear the cheers."