I'm In Film School, So I Really

I Don't Believe That I Should Just Do A-movies, I Just Do The Work As An Artist.

Everyone Else Can Do Violence. You Know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, They Can All Do Shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Kill 10 People In One Minute, And They Don't Call It "white Exploitation." They Win Awards And Get Into All The Magazines. But If Black People Do It, Suddenly It's Different Than If A White Person Does It. People Respond Differently Because People Come From Different Places.

I Don't Think I Can Break Down Any Doors, But I'm Thinking, "maybe I Can Be A Cameraman, Because I Love The Cameras." And The Cameraman Would Show Me How To Thread The Film, How To Repair It, The Lenses. That's When You Become, Like, Goony Goo-goo About It. You Breathe And Eat Camera, And All Of A Sudden, You Don't Want Anything Else In The World. You Finally Know, "this Is My Calling." When You're Passionate About Something, It Doesn't Become Work. It's Art And It's Fun. It's Arduous, It's Sweaty.

Yes, You Can Have Art Films About The Triumph Of The Human Spirit And All Of That, But You'll Have It Done With A Big-budget Icon With A $20 Million Salary. You'll Have Julia Roberts, You'll Have Robert Redford, You'll Have Russell Crowe Doing Those Films, Because If They're Going To Cost $90 Million, They're Going To Make That Movie For A Public That's Very Large And Mainstream. They're Not Going To Make It For Three Or Four Million Black People.

I Tell Actresses, "if You're Too Tall, If You're Too Fat, You're Not Going To Work. I Don't Care How Talented You Are." It's A Business, And Sex Sells.