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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
My dream is to make a Superman hero that's gay.
I like to show the grey area in all my characters.
I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.
At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.
I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.
My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.
I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.
I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.
My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.
I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.
I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.
I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.
I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.
Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.
I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.
I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.