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"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
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"If I kept saying it, if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't."

"Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself."

"Opportunities are endless when you are ready to find them."

"Make everyday a positive dayMake it joyful and beautiful in everyway"

"An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish."

"So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you - your instincts are ready to serve you."

"Many opportunities are missed, since we fail to give it a try."

"May you find new opportunities in every encounter."

"Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention."
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"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."


"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."


"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful."


"Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest."


"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."


"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."


"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."


"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."


"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive."
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