Spartacus

“Spartacus. Oh man, it's funny, you know, you get in here and you realize you're influenced by so many filmmakers and they sort of they're etched in your head and you're trying to—you are this, I am this bag, you know? I bring all of this to the table when I'm directing.”

“Let’s start with this. “I’m Spartacus.” “No, I’m Spartacus.” “No, I’m Spartacus.” Well, who the hell is Spartacus? I would say this is one of my favorite films. I was actually born in a place called Haiti. Haiti was the first Black republic to become free, in 1804. So, what I love most about the movie Spartacus is just the uprising, the idea of, “We’re no longer going to conform ourselves to what you want us to be,” and the idea of what freedom really is.”

“Spartacus, it's so wonderful is that it's this big epic film that Kubrick does and yet it's got this personal story in it and then you connect to it that way rather than just the big spectacle of it. It's one of the first movies that I saw that I became aware of the score. There's a couple melodies in it, they're just extraordinary.”