“Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person?” he asks. “I made a film about Jean-Michel Basquiat. Was I exploiting him by making that movie about him? I think I did him a solid by making that film. My daughter Lola says: ‘Everyone is pink inside.’ “Robert Mapplethorpe had a show at the Whitney Museum and there were guys with their dicks out or whatever,” he continues. “Now it seems if you’re transgender you have a better chance of getting an exhibition in a museum,” he continues. “All of these kind of political, kind of topical trends about things are …” Contribute Hire me
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