I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

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.

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.

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

Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.