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“I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don't refuse to make mainstream music, which is why I did a soul record. There was no reason why soul music couldn't get played on the radio and I still wanted to have a relationship with my record label. So, I really enjoyed doing the Strickland Banks album. But there's no point in my trying to release underground hip-hop music on a major label. That part of my talent, or part of my art, had to live somewhere else and feature film was the perfect vehicle for it.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?”
Source : Bruce Poon Tip (2013). “Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business”, p.153, Hachette UK
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“All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.”
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“I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuableto do.”
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“I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.”
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“Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the hatred and envy of success become stronger than the desire for continued economic growth, and a period dominated by resentment begins.”
Source : Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”
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“I haven't got any kids yet and it is something I need to address. I'm sure that, God willing, that'll be the next and most fabulous episode of my little life.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.