I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.