Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Don't run with the crowd

Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.

If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.