Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.