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

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.

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

There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.