Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

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

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

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.