Critics Like To Build You Up, Tear

You Know That First Of All Your Films Have To Make Money No Matter Who You Are.

My Grandmother Lived To Be 100 Years Old. Her Grandmother Was A Slave, Yet She Was A College Graduate In The Spellman Class Of 1917. She Taught Art For 50 Years And She Saved Her Social Security Checks For Her Children's Education.

I May Have Been Born Yesterday, But I Stayed Up All Night.

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker Between My Sophomore And Junior Years At Morehouse. Before I Left For The Summer Of 1977, My Advisor Told Me I Really Had To Declare A Major When I Came Back, Because I'd Used All My Electives In My First Two Years. I Went Back To New York And I Couldn't Find A Job. There Were None To Be Had. And That Previous Christmas Someone Gave Me A Super-8 Camera, So I Just Started To Shoot Stuff.

One Of The Great Things About African-americans Is That We've Always Had This Attitude: We Make Do With What We Got. It Comes From Our Ancestors Being Slaves.