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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.