There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on that kind of basis, I'm not seeing much. I'm just waiting to see.

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

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

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

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.

Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?