I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

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.

I am the captain of my soul.

Angel dust blown a sunder, Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams, Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs.

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.