Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.