- [on getting slashed by a homeless man]: In a nutshell, a guy came up to me, tried to steal a token from me and we had an argument that got really heated up, and the guy cut me with a knife. The thing that depresses me about it is, I was getting chauffeured around by the company and I could've had a car pick me up, but I felt like, oh, I'm getting a big head, Let me just get on the subway, let me be real. It was too real. And this was in Manhattan..I never had any problems in the Bronx.
- [on writing the script for Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) in three days: It was real easy....All I had to do was figure out what was the order that it was gonna fall into. But so much of it was the stuff that was actually said. There are lines in there that friends of mine, they go, Oh, I remember, I used to say that all the time!
- on coming up with Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991): I had this idea for this film for a long while, but I never wrote it down, and I'm glad I waited, 'cause if I'd have made it back then, the film would have just been a good-time party movie, but now I'm outside of it and can see it for what it was, which was, hey, we had a good time but we were headed nowhere, we had so much tension beneath the surface. So it was good to have that objective view, writing about it at 27 rather than at 21.
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