I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

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.

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

Regular and concentrated training makes an expert.

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.