Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well..

The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot ….

I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's f….

I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ….

I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that p….

We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," or "Stand….

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect..