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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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