I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

Keep talking all the time the same trite things is like repeating the same menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.