I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind”.

Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.