I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

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.

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.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.