I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

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

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

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.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.