You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
“My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.”
“And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.”