“When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see m...” — Thomas Chatterton Williams Quote

“When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.”

“In my own young black life, I have done my part to gentrify a half-dozen mixed neighborhoods ranging from Spanish Harlem to Fort Greene to the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Many of my well-educated black, Latino, Asian and Arab friends have done the same.”

“There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.”

“The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.”

“I have a daughter and a family.”

“My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.”