Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you….

I like making movies..

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are..

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a scri….

I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciati….

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in….

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it ….

It's part of the film-making business and also part of the creative process - putting all the pieces together to make a movie, so that they all line ….

Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his business-I won't get into tha….

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo sa….

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is..

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who ….

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as….

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people.….

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick ….

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence..

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist..

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine….

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold….

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies..