It Gets Dangerous When You Start Allowing

I Think The Best Actors In The World Are Here In New York City. And This City Is Just So Vibrant The Energy Is Just Phenomenal. Great Crews Here. All The Technicians, All The Artists That Work In This Industry. I've Just Been Very Happy With The Body That We've Been Able To Do, Especially Those Films We Shot Here In New York City.

If People Go To Imdb, They Will See That I'm Very Comfortable With Independent Cinema, And Doing Studio Films Too. For Me This Is Not An Either/or Situation.

I Am Trying To Stay Away From This Position Of Me "returning To My Roots." As If My Roots Are That I'm Only Comfortable Working On Low-budget, Small Films. That's Not The Case At All.

This Film [chi-raq]is A Declaration. It's A Scream. It's A Warning. And I Can Really Break It Down To One Scene. That's The Scene Where We Have The Eulogy And Sermon That Is Given By The Great John Cusack.

You Have To Do The Research. If You Don't Know About Something, Then You Ask The Right People Who Do.