I May Have Been Born

I Think People Who Have Faults Are A Lot More Interesting Than People Who Are Perfect.

Music Is, For Me, A Great Tool Of A Filmmaker, The Same Way Cinematography, The Acting, Editing, Post-production, The Costumes Are. You Know, To Help You Tell A Story.

If We Became Students Of Malcolm X, We Would Not Have Young Black Men Out There Killing Each Other Like They're Killing Each Other Now. Young Black Men Would Not Be Impregnating Young Black Women At The Rate Going On Now. We'd Not Have The Drugs We Have Now, Or The Alcoholism.

When I Went To School, You Had To Take Art, You Had To Play An Instrument. You Had To Play An Instrument. But It's All Degraded Since Then. I Do Not Know What Kind Of Nation We Are That Is Cutting Art, Music, And Gym Out Of The Public-school Curriculum.

I Don't Like To Use The Word 'remake', I Think Reinterpretation Is A Better Word. It's Just A Matter Of Respecting The Source, And Then Trying To Make Your Own Film, And Trying Not To Be Inhibited By Being So Beholden To Every Single Thing... We Respect The Source, But We Make Changes To It.