I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me, because people really think they have me pegged. I want to do something different, like maybe do a space movie or a musical.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

When the inner Spirit has Liberation, Inspiration is born!

When your passions and desires align you cannot hold them back.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.