I Became A Director Just For The

I'm A Product Of Older Filmmakers I Guess, The Past Where You Get To Make Movies And Scenes Are What They Are. You Know If You Think About Scorsese Back In The Day When He Was Making Taxi Driver, Or Coppola Or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, They're Making Films Where You Witness Violence In A Real Way.

Some Men Don't Gel When It Comes To Work - You Have Different Work Ethics, Different Opinions, Different Points Of Views, Different Methods Of Filmmaking - And We Didn't Gel.

It's Not Worth It, It's Not About Money, Especially When You're Dealing With A Culture. It Should Be About Elevating The Idea Of What We Are And Who We Are As People In The Cinema, And That Kind Of Stuff Keeps Dragging Us Back Down.

I Believe In God, Absolutely.

Tupac Shakur Is Something That, Of Course I Want To Make The Tupac Movie, I Love Tupac, But When That Movie Was Announced, We Didn't Even Have A Script Yet. It Was Just Being Written. People Announce Things Too Soon. If You Go To Any Filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - You Go In Their Offices And There Are Scripts Everywhere And There's About Four Or Five Of Them You Really Want To Make.