What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

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'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.

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.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

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