I Like Being In Real Environments. I

How Do You Capture The Drama Of A Rembrandt Painting In A Movie? How Do You Feel That Moment That They Captured In Two Hours? I Kind Of Fell Into It And At One Point, I Decided I Wanted To Live An Art Life; I Wanted To Tell Stories. I Came To New York, And Did What Most People Do - You Become A Pa And Run And Get Coffee And Pay Your Dues And Learn Until Your Opportunity Comes.

So It's Hard To Be An Artist And Be True To The Reality Of The World You Want To Create And Also Make It Entertaining And Successful Financially.

Some Men Don't Gel When It Comes To Work - You Have Different Work Ethics, Different Opinions, Different Points Of Views, Different Methods Of Filmmaking - And We Didn't Gel.

I'd Seen Too Many Shrines In South Central And Thought It Was Worth Asking Where The First Bullet Came From That Started All This Violence.

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.