It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

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.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.

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.

Direct observation includes the person having knowledge of what is being done and how to do it. It is not simply standing there and looking at someone doing the job.