The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
My dream is to make a Superman hero that's gay.
I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.
I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].
I don't think anyone likes anything of mine. At the end of the day, I love it, but just because I love it. . . I happen to love broccoli, not a lot of people like broccoli. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films.
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Everyone's work is equally important.