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.

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

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.

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.

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

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

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