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

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

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

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.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

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.