Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.

I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.