I collect names for characters. Names are valuable they can be your first source of insight into a character.
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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.
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Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.
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A lot of my directing we do in the rehearsal process. We don't want to start discussing the character motivation and stuff like that on the set, so we do a lot of that stuff beforehand in rehearsal.
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