Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.