It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.