HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal

There is always a gift in any challenge.

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

For Frito-Lay!" - Newel and Doren

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.