"I hope the publicity you're getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be …"

"I'm a big fan of blaxploitation films. They're awesome."

"I don't care for Matthew Lillard."

"I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages."

"My movies are very personal. I'm working in a genre, no doubt about it... but to me all the movies are very personal."