When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

Writin’ Is Fightin'!

So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

The will to do, the soul to dare..