I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.

There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

I'm always moving forward.

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