If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.
My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie.
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.
Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
New York is like a disco, but without the music