You Can't Build Your Life Around Hurts

People See Truth In My Films. That's What They React To, And That's What They Relate To.

There's Nothing Like Real Forgiveness, A Deep-down Forgiveness Where You Don't Hold Any Grudges Against People. I Forgave For The Things They Didn't Know And For The Things They Didn't Know To Do.

There Was Our House In New Orleans. Two Blocks In Front Of Us Were These Beautiful Mansions And Two Blocks Behind Us Were The Ghetto, Projects, And That's Where I Had To Go To School, But I Would Always Pattern My Life Looking Forward. It Was Almost Literal.

It's A Clear Day Sonny, L A N D.

My Father Who Was There In The House, He Wasn't At All A Role Model. And My Mother, Who Was Trying To Protect Me From Him As Best She Could, She Took Me Everywhere With Her, Which Gave Me A Tremendous Amount Of Sensitivity To The Things Women Go Through.