I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.
There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.
I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.
I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.