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" I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances. "

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" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "

" I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual. "

" I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. "

" I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span. "

" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "

" I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents. "

" I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. "

" Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. "

" My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her. "

" What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen. "

" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "

" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "

" I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth. "

" I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. "

" I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. "

" When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. "

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" I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. "

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" I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world. "

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" My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. "

" I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face. "

" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "

" My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me. "

" I like to show the grey area in all my characters. "

" I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me. "

" I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. "

" I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. "

" 'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. "