He Revolutionized Music Videos. Before Michael Jackson,

You Gotta Make Your Own Way. You Gotta Find A Way. You Gotta Get It Done. It's Hard. It's Tough. That's What I Tell My Students Every Day In Class. I've Been Very Fortunate. Some People Might Call Me A Hardhead, But I'm Not Going To Let Other People Dictate To Me Who I Should Be Or The Stories I Should Tell. That Doesn't Register With Me.

It Has Been My Observation That Parents Kill More Dreams Than Anybody.

American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.

If People Go To Imdb, They Will See That I'm Very Comfortable With Independent Cinema, And Doing Studio Films Too. For Me This Is Not An Either/or Situation.

A Lot Of Times, We Censor Ourselves Before The Censor Even Gets There.