If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.

When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...