I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.