There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.
