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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.
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With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
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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.
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At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
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I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
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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.
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I like to show the grey area in all my characters.
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I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
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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.
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I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College.
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
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I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
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I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.
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My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
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If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
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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.
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I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
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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.
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I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.
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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.'
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I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.
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