I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

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.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

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

I like people to look like they're floating.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.