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

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.

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.

I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.