With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these… — Charles Burnett Copy Share
There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
