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 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.

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.

Power is knowing your past.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.