I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.