Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.