I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.