It`s not worth it, it`s not about money, especially when you`re dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
It`s a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can`t always do that.
It`s a dumb question, because I don`t look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that`s why I don`t read them. I think people are lying when they say they don`t care, that`s not true. I take them personally.