I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

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

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.