I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

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

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

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.

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

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.

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