I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

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.

The reward of a work is to have produced it

Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.