[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

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

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.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

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