Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.