My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.