Quotes About Progress

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

I would love to be directed by more women.

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

I've been very lucky to debut with Yashraj films, then being directed by Karan Johar and now Amol Gupte.

My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.

I've acted just to get to directing.

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

I think we're going in the right direction.

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

My career has taken so many directions.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.