I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.