 Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. |
| I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. |
| A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing. |
| People are sheepish when they approach me. |
| There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. |
| Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. |
| Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. |
| Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. |
| Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous! |
| I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. |
| My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. |
| There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. |
| I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. |
| I won't make a movie for money ever again. |
| I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. |
| I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. |
| But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. |
