My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

History passes the final judgment

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.