I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger age than that, I'd wanted to be an actress, so when I saw her, I clearly remember thinking, 'This is a strange coincidence.'
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are telling them, are taught that illness originates in errors in their parents' and, eventually, their own thinking.
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.