As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

You can get hurt at any time.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.