When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

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.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.