Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

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.

Out of necessity comes genius.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people in one minute, and they don't call it "white exploitation." They win awards and get into all the magazines. But if black people do it, suddenly it's different than if a white person does it. People respond differently because people come from different places.