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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.

We've Got To Turn This Backward Thinking Around Where Ignorance Is Championed Over Intelligence. Young Black Kids Being Ridiculed By Their Peers For Getting A's And Speaking Proper English: That's Criminal.

A Lot Of Times, We Censor Ourselves Before The Censor Even Gets There.

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 Don't Really Analyze My Stuff When I Write. I Write About Stuff That I'm Interested In, That I'm Feeling At That Particular Time. When I Stand Back And Look At The Complete Work, I Might See Themes That Run Through The Whole Film, But I'm Not Really Conscious Of It When I'm Doing It.