It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage pe….

You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long tim….

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view..

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I do….

There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on tha….

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it..

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like ap….

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will alway….

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery..

Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no ro….

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the k….

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing….

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it..

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much..

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film..

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emerge….

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated..

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because….

Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be d….

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction..

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromis….