The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news. — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect. — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share
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