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 …

- Steven Caple Jr.

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

- Steven Caple Jr.

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…

- Steven Caple Jr.

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.

- Steven Caple Jr.

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…

- Steven Caple Jr.

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. …

- Steven Caple Jr.

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…

- Steven Caple Jr.