When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.

Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest'cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.