Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.
Human sexuality is not always about being labeled. It's about having a human moment, an emotion.
The Caribbean is such a rich place, and Jamaica, personally, is one of my favorite places in the world. I've been lucky to, on various projects, to have spent a lot of time down there.
I think the fact that 'Black Lightning,' 'Luke Cage' and 'Black Panther' have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.
The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.
When you're writing about cops from the perspective of cops, that level of sarcasm about their job and how they treat people will color the writing to a certain extent.
Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.
I'm a hip-hop showrunner.
For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.
Television has power.
One of my favorite memories as a kid was when the original 'Secret Wars' came out with the debut of the black costume for Spider-Man. I remember I couldn't wait to get home to read it, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, I've been waiting for this comic to come out. I hope, God forbid, nothing happens to me before I get home to read it.'
Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.
My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.
Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.
It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.
I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.
If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your cultural history, regardless of whether or not you talk about it, it's there.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
Alfre Woodard is a powerhouse, master actor, but she's also someone that you want to interact with, someone that you want to talk to.
The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.
