When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.
I'm more vocal about my ideas in person and music.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.
I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
I took inspiration from one of my favorite movies, 'The Last Dragon,' along with my own personal thoughts and ideas.
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.
As an actor, you create your own ideas.
