Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.