'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

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