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

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.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.