Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

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

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 had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.