Movies are so hard to get made - every step of the way of making a movie has obstacles. If you don't have that passion, if you don't have that vision….

The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a differe….

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the….

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese b….

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

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….

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….

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

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..

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.….

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

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..

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….

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 ….

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

I like making movies..

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….