What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace