I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

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.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My generation has the opportunity to change the world.