I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

Most of what we see are white people.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want a camera on your phone? But as we see the impact of it, it has allowed for a mass verification of what black people have been saying.

The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very structured set-up and it's not conducive to get at the kinds of things I'm trying to portray using the cinematic apparatus to show black sociality and how it functions.