I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

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

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

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

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.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.