I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

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 always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

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

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.