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

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

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.

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.