You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.

You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy