“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 without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.”
![“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 without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of…” quote by Steven Caple Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b2/steven-caple-jr-49791_able_i-wanted-to-make-sure-the-focus-in-the-l_2361786.jpg)
![“Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.” quote by Steven Caple Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c94/steven-caple-jr-49791_black_poor-is-the-new-black-so-on-this-film-th_1342493.jpg)
![“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 Thing," or "Stand By Me." Even beyond Coogler, there are black films that are just voices. So the intention behind this ["The Land"] was to capture today's.” quote by Steven Caple Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5d/steven-caple-jr-49791_behinds_we-have-our-classic-hood-movies-right-li_2504300.jpg)
![“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 people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who…” quote by Steven Caple Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/steven-caple-jr-49791_cautionary-tales_i-ve-been-with-the-project-for-like-thre_2872134.jpg)
