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"We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this.""
"Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way."
"I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression."
"Sometimes blessings come in strange packages."
"The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have."
"A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second."
"The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner."
"[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy."
"I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out."
"How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts."
"I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen."
"I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct."
"Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them."
"You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice."
"Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing."
"We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices."
"Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin."
"For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact."
"It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins."
"Racism is within each and every one of us."