I just hope that my films will survive me.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

Without toil, would there be any tears?

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Loneliness is a crowded room

Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering.

If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

I've been out on the periphery.