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.

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

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.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

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