I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.

Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.

My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.