I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

Who can save my wretched soul? Only the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting, My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine. Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

All words are prejudices.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.