You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.
What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.