I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.
Our films tremendously influence people. But at the same time, no one goes to the cinema to listen to lectures, so if you have an interesting story, and if you can showcase it as a film, and its messages are good, then it's like an icing on the cake: it shall be a superhit. And if I get those kind of films, I'll definitely want to work on it.
I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.
I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.
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