When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

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.

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.

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.