I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others.

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.