Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe. ' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good. '
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.
I don't believe we have ever had a Black leader that was so widely accepted among the masses of people, as well as the leadership, in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, as Allah (God) has blessed me to be accepted.