I May Have Been Born Yesterday, But

You Gotta Make Your Own Way. You Gotta Find A Way. You Gotta Get It Done. It's Hard. It's Tough. That's What I Tell My Students Every Day In Class. I've Been Very Fortunate. Some People Might Call Me A Hardhead, But I'm Not Going To Let Other People Dictate To Me Who I Should Be Or The Stories I Should Tell. That Doesn't Register With Me.

I Used The Principles Of Kickstarter To Make 'she's Gotta Have It.' We Filmed That In 1985 To 1986. The Final Cost Was $175,000. I Didn't Have That Money. It Was Friends, Grants, Donations. We Saved Our Bottles For The Nickel Deposit.

Racism In America Absolutely Exists - It Is An Issue. We Need To Fix It. We're A Great Country - Probably The Greatest Country But We Could Be A Hell Of A Lot Greater.

I Like To Work With The Same People When I Can, And You Want To Get People With The Same Interests That You Have, And The Same Aesthetic.

First Of All, What In This World Does Not Revolve Around Money? But Money Is A Big Part Of Film, Unlike A Lot Of Other Art Forms.