You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.