I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

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.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.