Tyler Perry

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.