And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.