I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

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 like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.