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.

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.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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