You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

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.

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

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.