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"There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled."
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"The door to success may be in front of you, but you still have to open it."
"Be perceptive. Be progressive. Be proactive. Be productive."
"Do what you want that works."
"After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is."
"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
"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."
"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."
"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do."
"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."
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