Today's Cinema Is A Proliferation

Every Day Of My Life I Walk With The Idea That I Am Black, No Matter How Successful I Am. And Our Success Is Tempered By That; You're Successful In This Way Given The Fact You Are Black, And Most Blacks Don't Get To That Point.

If We Talk About The Environment, For Example, We Have To Talk About Environmental Racism - About The Fact That Kids In South Central Los Angeles Have A Third Of The Lung Capacity Of Kids In Santa Monica.

The Exceptionalism Of A Black U.s. President Is Not Important To Me. It's What He Does - And Who He Has At The Table.

New Orleans Is A City Whose Basic Industry Is The Service Industry. That's Why It Makes Its Money. That's - It Brings People To The City. People Come To The City And Experience The Wonders Of This Extraordinary City And Everything Else. The Question Is That, How Do We Create Jobs Which Are The Jobs That Have Pay, That - Living Wages?

Mel Gibson Is My Friend. I Love Mel. He's Not The Person That I Hear People Are Often Trying To Diminish. Whatever His Challenges Are In Life, He Still Remains Someone I'm Very Close To.