People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.