Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.