Tearing up the racial contract will demand a project of national reconstruction, the allocation of whose burdens will need to recognize the problems tens of millions of poor, working-class, and unemployed white Americans are facing also.
"The greatest moments are when I realize that the film I thought I was making is totally different from where the film is going, and I have to throw the playbook out the window. That’s when I know I’m onto something because I’m expanding my perception."
"Try to be elegant in everything. Even in your failure, try to be elegant. You have to make your mistakes, you have to own your mistakes, and you have to win."
"I see this profession in the entertainment business as something quite serious — not in an intellectual sense, but more in the necessity of it. It’s a good thing to be able to make people forget about their problems for two hours or five minutes or something."
