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.

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 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.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

Don’t hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone.

Dreams don't work unless you do

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.