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

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

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

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

Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

[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.

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.