The Impact Of The Black Audience Is

My Father Was A Certain Kind Of Man - I Saw How He Treated My Mother And His Family And How He Treated Strangers. And I Vowed I Would Never Make A Film That Would Not Reflect Properly On My Father's Name.

Acting Isn't A Game Of "pretend." It's An Exercise In Being Real.

Child Psychologists Have Demonstrated That Our Minds Are Actually Constructed By These Thousands Of Tiny Interactions During The First Few Years Of Life. We Aren't Just What We're Taught. It's What We Experience During Those Early Years - A Smile Here, A Jarring Sound There - That Creates The Pathways And Connections Of The Brain. We Put Our Kids To Fifteen Years Of Quick-cut Advertising, Passive Television Watching, And Sadistic Video Games, And We Expect To See Emerge A New Generation Of Calm, Compassionate, And Engaged Human Beings?

An Appreciable Number Of Directors Have Shifted To Lower-cost Films, Allowing Them To Be Satisfied With A More Modest Return.

But My Dad Also Was A Remarkable Man, A Good Person, A Principled Individual, A Man Of Integrity.