There Is A Lack Of Leadership Outside

President Obama Is A Man Who Had Certain Advantages Because Of The Civil Rights Movement. He Had The Opportunity To Go To Some Of The Best Schools In This Country - Schools That Train You How To Run The Political Paradigm, Not Challenge It. The Leaders Of The Black Power Movement Were Challenging That Paradigm.

Some Of These Things I Saw In Foreign Films - African Films, Cuban Films - Long Before I Decided To Really Go On This Course As An Actor. I Started To Think About What Values I Saw In Those Films That I Wanted To Bring To My Projects

I've Always Been Able To Make Choices That Don't Embarrass Me.

Those Titles, Executive Producer Or Actor, Are Unimportant. I Always Try To Approach My Role As An Artist. The First Thing You Want To Do, That You Attempt To Do As An Artist, Is To Have Some Sort Of Input Into The Material That You Are Working On. That Is How My Process Begins; I Say To Myself: "i Want To Do This Kind Of Work Or I Want To Do That Kind Of Work."

I Was Involved With The Anti-apartheid Movement Through My Work As An Artist And Also Through My Political Commitment.