I've Never Seen Black Men With Fine

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.

People Sometimes Forget All The Films That We've Done. They Remember The Likes Of 'malcolm X' And 'do The Right Thing.' But I've Been Working Since 1986. From The Beginning, I Was Determined To Not Just Be A Flash In The Pan. I've Got To Keep Up With Woody Allen. He's Lapping Me.

Surprises Are Good. I'm Not Of The Thinking Where You Tell The Audience Everything. Sometimes I Don't Even Want To See The Trailers. You See The Trailer, You've Seen The Movie.

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 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.