I Knew I Was Never Going To

I Don't Like To Use The Word 'remake', I Think Reinterpretation Is A Better Word. It's Just A Matter Of Respecting The Source, And Then Trying To Make Your Own Film, And Trying Not To Be Inhibited By Being So Beholden To Every Single Thing... We Respect The Source, But We Make Changes To It.

I Consider Madonna A Friend, And She Sure Knows How To Work The Publicity Machine. Of Course, I Don't Have Breasts. If I Did Have, I'd Be In The Number One Spot Over Madonna.

You Gotta Make Your Own Way. You Gotta Find A Way. You Gotta Get It Done. It's Hard. It's Tough. That's What I Tell My Students Every Day In Class. I've Been Very Fortunate. Some People Might Call Me A Hardhead, But I'm Not Going To Let Other People Dictate To Me Who I Should Be Or The Stories I Should Tell. That Doesn't Register With Me.

A Lot Of Times You Get Credit For Stuff In Your Movies You Didn't Intend To Be There.

People Of Color Have A Constant Frustration Of Not Being Represented, Or Being Misrepresented, And These Images Go Around The World.