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

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.

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

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'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.

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.