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.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.

[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.

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.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

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.