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

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.

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.

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.

In May I keep count.Two and a half more days of school

Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.