You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.