I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

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.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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