I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.