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As A Writer I Want Everybody To Get A Chance To Voice Their Opinions. If Each Character Thinks That They're Telling The Truth, Then It's Valid. Then At The End Of The Film, I Leave It Up To The Audience To Decide Who Did The Right Thing.

I've Been Blessed With The Opportunity To Express The Views Of Black People Who Otherwise Don't Have Access To Power And The Media. I Have To Take Advantage Of That While I'm Still Bankable.

One Of The Great Things About African-americans Is That We've Always Had This Attitude: We Make Do With What We Got. It Comes From Our Ancestors Being Slaves.

I Wouldn't Be Doing Motherfu**ing Films For Almost Three Decades If Every Time I Did Something That Someone Didn't Like I Went In A Fu**ing Cocoon And Just Hid There And Didn't Make My Art.

A Spine To My Films That's Become More Evident To Me Is That Many Are About The Choices People Make, And The Reverberations Of Those Choices. You Go This Way, Or That Way, And Either Way, There's Going To Be Consequences.