I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

That's what I meant, ' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.