I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.