“We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more importan...” — Shaun King Quote

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'