You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.
The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard.
Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.
Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!
The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.
We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean.
She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.
Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.
Those who say I can, and those who say I can’t – are both usually right.
You can’t win enough, you can’t have enough money, you can’t succeed enough. There is not enough.
I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.
The execs don’t care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It’s green.
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in ‘The Fugitive.’ That’s how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.