You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the c….

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmm….

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmake….

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….

There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain histor….

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities..

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than the….