I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life

Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.