If You Just Work On

Sadly, This Picture [ Joy] Does Not Go From Strength To Strength. It Sinks Into A Morass Of Tedious Obstacles To This Woman's Success. Joy The Person May Be Able To Surmount All Barriers, But The Film With Her Name On It Is Not So Fortunate.

I Think Audiences Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt. I Prefer To Be Surprised By Them Rather Then Just Assume They'll React Negatively To Any New Idea.

You Can't Force A Movie To Happen. Movies Happen When They're Supposed To Happen. Everything Happens In God's Time. I Really Believe That.

The Religion Itself May Have Some Great Ideas, But I Can't Take It Seriously If It's Blatantly Exclusionary.

In Order To Reinvent Yourself, You Have To Dig Deep And Look At Yourself. I'd Lost My Way Creatively, And I Was Humbled, And So I Think I Got Really Basic About Wanting To Depict People In The Ways That I Find Them Amazing And Funny And Emotional And That I Can Relate To And Do From An Instinctive, Gut Place. People Trying To Survive ... That's What All My Movies Are About.