Cocaine and crack are essentially the same thing. Cocaine is a middle-class drug. Crack is a poor person's drug, which carries a felony conviction for possession. And once you get this felony conviction, which given that the whole community is… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law.… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time in L.A., it's always reminded me a bit of Jo'burg, which is a deeply segregated city. And L.A.… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share
For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class and… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
Cocaine and crack are essentially the same thing. Cocaine is a middle-class drug. Crack is a poor person's drug, which carries a felony conviction… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
I think it's a problem if you don't compensate people that have got no money, because I really feel you're exploiting them. — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
