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

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

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

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

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.

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.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.