I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

Some of my cousins who wanted to pursue acting were always taking pictures and meeting people. I could never think of doing all this. Doing films was the last thing on my mind.

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

I feel like people with their camera phones and Twitter and Facebook, this kind of question like, 'How can I be present and also document my presence or document what I'm doing?' is something that's always on my mind, even when I'm not working as a filmmaker.

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

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