There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.