I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.
I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.
I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
