I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.
I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.
I grew up watching Westerns.
Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
It's not a problem to be great and do good things.
I've always had a passion to help people.
When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.
There's so much music going on in New Orleans.
I really prayed and asked God for my first film.
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
I started directing on 'The Wire.'
