I Miss My Brother. Prince

I Never Understood The Concept Of Showing Everything In The Trailer. Why Go To A Movie If There's No Surprise? I Can't Do It Like That.

I Respect The Audience's Intelligence A Lot, And That's Why I Don't Try To Go For The Lowest Common Denominator.

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker Between My Sophomore And Junior Years At Morehouse. Before I Left For The Summer Of 1977, My Advisor Told Me I Really Had To Declare A Major When I Came Back, Because I'd Used All My Electives In My First Two Years. I Went Back To New York And I Couldn't Find A Job. There Were None To Be Had. And That Previous Christmas Someone Gave Me A Super-8 Camera, So I Just Started To Shoot Stuff.

I Wouldn't Be Doing Motherfu**ing Films For Almost Three Decades If Every Time I Did Something That Someone Didn't Like I Went In A Fu**ing Cocoon And Just Hid There And Didn't Make My Art.

Sex And Racism Have Always Been Tied Together. Look At The Thousands Of Black Men Who Got Lynched And Castrated. The Reason The Klan Came Into Being Was To Protect White Southern Women.