Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.