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

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

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

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

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.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.