I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
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.
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