When I Go To Movies

I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances.

Every Film Had Its Own Grammar. And It's Your Job As A Director To Basically Figure Out A Language To Tell A Story.

When People Think About The Ark, They're Always Thinking About All The Thousands Of Years Of Religious Iconography Of A Ship With A Bow And A Deck, Where Noah And The Giraffes Could Walk Around. In The Actual Written Text It Is Basically Described As A Long, Rectangular Box.

I Wasn't A Big Fan Of Social Anthropology. And, Luckily, That Created Room For Me To Work In Visual Arts Because I Sort Of Ignored My Requirements. I Think I Was Attracted To Social Anthropology Because I Liked To Travel And Was Always Interested In Far-off Places.

I've Always Wanted To Introduce Hip-hop Filmmaking To Film. There's Hip-hop Art, Dance, Music, But There Really Isn't Hip-hop Film. So I Was Trying To Do That.