Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

- Charles Burnett

We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are …

- Charles Burnett

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as…

- Charles Burnett

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were …

- Charles Burnett

With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to br…

- Charles Burnett

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story …

- Charles Burnett