If I'm Going To See My Mom,

How Do You Capture The Drama Of A Rembrandt Painting In A Movie? How Do You Feel That Moment That They Captured In Two Hours? I Kind Of Fell Into It And At One Point, I Decided I Wanted To Live An Art Life; I Wanted To Tell Stories. I Came To New York, And Did What Most People Do - You Become A Pa And Run And Get Coffee And Pay Your Dues And Learn Until Your Opportunity Comes.

The Violence You Witness Is Denzel Doing It And We're Taking Some Visual Effects And Doing Some Things And You See Something Happen It's Happening In Front Of You As Opposed To Cutting Away And Doing A Bunch Of Tricks. It's In Front Of You. So It's Hard Not To Make It A Hard "r" If You See A Guy Get Punched And Teeth Wind Up In Someone's Knuckles.

Tupac Shakur Is Something That, Of Course I Want To Make The Tupac Movie, I Love Tupac, But When That Movie Was Announced, We Didn't Even Have A Script Yet. It Was Just Being Written. People Announce Things Too Soon. If You Go To Any Filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - You Go In Their Offices And There Are Scripts Everywhere And There's About Four Or Five Of Them You Really Want To Make.

I Like The Platform To Show Your Art And Everything That Goes Along With That. To Show Your Voice And Hopefully Find Films That Are More Politically Driven, Films That Maybe Inspire.

I Don't Think I've Seen That Sort Of Character In A Long Time In This Genre Because Again, There Was A Time When You Could Have Quirky, Strange Characters That You Grew To Love, You Didn't Quite Understand, You Know, And Then All Of A Sudden They Became Almost Cardboard Cutouts For Awhile. You Kind Of Know The Guy, What His Deal Is - This Guy's Hard To Figure Out. He Has Some Strange Habits, But, You Learn To Love Him And You Discover More About Him, Where It Comes From.