Quotes About Empowerment

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

I just want to say that we Filipino are strong.

It is very important for me to give forward in helping out every Filipino.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

I want to give the girls who admire us everything I can. I don't want to just fill them with selfies and crap. That's not what I'm about. I'm about, 'Be aware of the world and that you're not the only one in it.'

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.

I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

I think, in the South, I can do it, especially in the Kannada film industry. I am popular enough to do a woman-centric film there.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

I am not against two-heroine films.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

You are good enough as you, so delete that Facetune app and step away from that really weird filter that makes you look smoother than Craig David.

I listen to a lot of music. One of my favorite songs is 'Final Song' by M. It's something that I listen to before a lot of competitions.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.