I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

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

South Central is just who I am.

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

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

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

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'