I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

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.

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.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.