A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Everybody has their black moments.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.