I've Spent A Life Loving Women And

The '90s Were A Party, I Mean Definitely Maybe Not For The Grunge Movement, But People Were Partying Harder In The '90s Than They Were In The '80s. The '90s Was Ecstasy, The '80s Was Yuppies. There Was That Whole Ecstasy Culture. People Were Having A Pretty Good Time In The '90s.

Every Film Had Its Own Grammar. And It's Your Job As A Director To Basically Figure Out A Language To Tell A Story.

I've Always Wanted To Introduce Hip-hop Filmmaking To Film. There's Hip-hop Art, Dance, Music, But There Really Isn't Hip-hop Film. So I Was Trying To Do That.

Also Expressionistic Filmmaking - Making The Audience Feel Like They Were Inside The Characters' Heads. And So We Create All These Different Types Of Techniques To Put The Audience There.

In Seventh Grade I Had A Magical Teacher, Her Name Was Mrs. Fried. She Wore Only Pink, She Drove A Pink Mustang, And She Was Half Out Of Her Head. But Very Inspiring. And One Day She Said, "take Out A Paper And Pen And Write Something About Peace." For Some Reason I Wrote A Poem On Noah - I Don't Know Why I Chose Noah - And It Turned Out It Was For A Contest For The Un. I Ended Up Winning And Reading The Poem In Front Of The Un. I Remember Mrs. Fried Telling Me, "when You Write Your First Book, Dedicate It To Me." That Was Like, "whoa."