Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?