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Usually, with 'Star Trek,' you always trust the captain. The captains are always going to pull us through; the captain's always going to win.

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Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?

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I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.

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I went to a school called Chapman University, which is a wonderful film school. It was a great program, but it was very white, and it was a culture shock for me because I grew up in Houston, Texas, and I went through what they call magnet schools, so my friends were like a Benetton ad.

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I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

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If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first of all, there are other people already doing that, and they're making a lot of money doing it.

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I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

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America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.

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My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell the truth through fiction, the best that I can?

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I tend to take on too many projects at the same time, but as I've always done, I will continue to shift my focus onto whatever feels most urgent in the moment.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 7th, 1983

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