I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.