First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

I am not afraid of a fight I have to do my duty come what may.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy