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.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

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

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

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.

You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.

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