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 didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

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

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

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.