I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.