One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...

Forever was my heartbeat and it was the hope tomorrow held.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618

It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.