People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.