My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

Bring a mirror and let a dirty face recognize itself.

To know aberrations is to become involved with them.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.