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.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

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.

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

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