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

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

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

Power is knowing your past.

If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.