People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

May the magic rise in YOU!

Awesome God.Awe-inspired God.Amazing God.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

What darkness to you is light to me

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.