Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.