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" My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. "

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

" I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. "

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

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

" My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto. "

" 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. "

" I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. "

" My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. "

" When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me. "

" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "

" I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. "

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

" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "

" Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to. "

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

" Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. "

" I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see. "

" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "

" 'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me. "

" I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. "

" Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. "

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

" 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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" I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me. "

" I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. "

" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "

" 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 think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "

" The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. "