One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.