There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

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

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

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

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

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