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.

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.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

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

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