Birth: November 30, 1960
I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me..
It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person whit….
I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want….
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The….
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained m….
Most of what we see are white people..
I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear..
To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema..
I don't see race. I don't see color..
The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very structured set-up and it's not conduciv….