I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.

If anything in nature was as beautiful as it was deadly, it was she.

The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

I am the luckiest man in the world.

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

The moon shows the truth of things.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.