If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

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.

A non-GMO Mom is an avid researcher, a conscientious protector, and the most effective teacher of natural health.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.