"I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"The youth is the hope of our future"

"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message"

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake"