We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.

People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.