When you love something it's not a job anymore.

America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

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

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 wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.