Critics Like To Build You Up, Tear

If We Became Students Of Malcolm X, We Would Not Have Young Black Men Out There Killing Each Other Like They're Killing Each Other Now. Young Black Men Would Not Be Impregnating Young Black Women At The Rate Going On Now. We'd Not Have The Drugs We Have Now, Or The Alcoholism.

It Gets Dangerous When You Start Allowing People To Validate Your Work.

'25th Hour,' Like A Lot Of My Films, Takes Place In New York City. I've Been Very Fortunate To Make Films In The City That I Live. I Mean, It's Great Going Home At Night Instead Of Being On Location.

My Cousin Malcolm Lee Is Also A Filmmaker.

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.