I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

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.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

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.

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

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

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