Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.