You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.
I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.
