Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.