Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

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