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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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