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'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.