Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.