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" While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' "

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" I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. "

" I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful. "

" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "

" I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me. "

" I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. "

" When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story. "

" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "

" I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it. "

" I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me. "

" That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious. "

" The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. "

" I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth. "

" Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. "

" My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. "

" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "

" I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. "

" I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker. "

" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "

" My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto. "

" I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. "

" I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. "

" I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. "

" The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film. "

" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "

" I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels. "

" Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them. "

" My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. "

" My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me. "

" I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene. "

" When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. "