"I steal from every single movie ever made."

"I just like to tell stories. And I like to tell them my way."

"I'm a big fan of blaxploitation films. They're awesome."

"My movies are very personal. I'm working in a genre, no doubt about it... but to me all the movies are very personal."

"Once the movie gets going, once the lights go down, you become a collective. There's you by yourself, but then there's all of you together. And then you start appreciating the movie in that way."