You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.
I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
I never thought of myself as a TV director.
A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.
We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.
There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.
Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.
I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
