If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.