Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.
There's something kind of horrific about milk. Think about it! Think about what we're doing. Milk is kind of gross.
I want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform.
I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy.
I did n't know it was ever going to get made. I 'd go home, smoke a little bit of weed and I would write.
I'll say this The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.
You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.
You hear it said time and time again by successful directors You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.
I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.
Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.
