I Wouldn't Be Doing Motherfu**ing Films For

A Lot Of Times You Get Credit For Stuff In Your Movies You Didn't Intend To Be There.

I Think Black People Have To Be In Control Of Their Own Image Because Film Is A Powerful Medium. We Can't Just Sit Back And Let Other People Define Our Existence.

We've Got To Turn This Backward Thinking Around Where Ignorance Is Championed Over Intelligence. Young Black Kids Being Ridiculed By Their Peers For Getting A's And Speaking Proper English: That's Criminal.

Everything I Do Is Always Scrutinised. But That's All I'll Say About That.

People Sometimes Forget All The Films That We've Done. They Remember The Likes Of 'malcolm X' And 'do The Right Thing.' But I've Been Working Since 1986. From The Beginning, I Was Determined To Not Just Be A Flash In The Pan. I've Got To Keep Up With Woody Allen. He's Lapping Me.