I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I'm definitely not a nerd.

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.