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" There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are. "

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" I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy. "

" I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times. "

" The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture. "

" Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way. "

" You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. "

" I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That's a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he'd take a measured, empathetic approach. I don't see there ever being another Barack Obama. "

" The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real. "

" As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre. "

" There's something kind of horrific about milk. Think about it! Think about what we're doing. Milk is kind of gross. "

" Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people. "

" I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me. "

" I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales. "

" I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night. "

" Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel. "

" You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you. "

" It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism. "

" Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs. "

" You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room. "

" Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that. "

" African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. "

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" I was raised that emotion was a good thing. "

" Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears. "

" The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that. "

" I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat. "

" I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming. "

" Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing. "

" I want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform. "

" As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen. "

" I'm a bigger fan of my directing than in acting. Acting is just harder. You know, not harder, per se, because directing is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. But it's harder to enjoy my work as an actor, you know. "

" We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art. "