Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. ↗
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive. ↗
I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. ↗
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. ↗
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. ↗
