"My last film...this is in my top five, dead or alive. Menace II Society is on Goodfellas level as a gangster movie. It came out close to Boyz n the Hood, and when Boyz n the Hood came out it was such a revelation that I think it ate up most of the oxygen around Menace II Society, so Menace II Society didn’t get the reception it deserved. Rest in peace John Singleton. Legend."

Which still isn't as many times as his most-viewed movie: Menace II Society. "I know it sounds kind of cliché," he said, later adding with a laugh when raving about Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave: "It's not only that I like black movies about black people."