The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.

You have to surround yourself with people who live, breathe and eat something that you're trying to do, and then it becomes a motivating thing for them to want to support and get behind what you're doing - it's all good then.

For me, we've been singing diversity in movies for 16 years, so it's just beautiful to see the rest of the world finally catching on and they're making it a point to do it.

I think ultimately a fan is a fan and you can't put new things on the fans mind if you don't have an audience.

I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood