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

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

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.

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

Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

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.