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

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.