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

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

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.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.