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

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" I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. "

" I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me. "

" 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. "

" My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. "

" While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' "

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

" I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' "

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

" 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. "

" I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.' "

" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "

" To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play. "

" 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 believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next. "

" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "

" 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. "

" I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. "

" It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not. "

" Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS. "

" I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back. "

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