You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.