Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do.