Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

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

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.