A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we….

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together..

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages..

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts..

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression..

We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation….

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second..

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy..

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on..

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people..

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing..

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist..

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen..

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing..

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide..

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with someth….

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way..

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmm….

I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious….

Racism is within each and every one of us..

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinc….