There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

Fame is a Bleet, man.

I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.

What’s easy to do, is also easy not to do.

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.