My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.