My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.