Oftentimes in a marriage, you really don’t have to say anything. You can sort of have a conversation without words. Salim Akil Read Quote
I was determined to make a movie – about families and a love story – that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny. Salim Akil Read Quote
What we tend to do in our shows, especially with ‘Love Is_,’ is to show the humanity of characters so that people can see themselves, one, and so that other cultures can see that we have more in common than we have not in common. Salim Akil Read Quote
I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they get to watch it from an entirely different perspective with new eyes. Salim Akil Read Quote
There are so many families who do not come up in a traditional household. African Americans, Latins, and, I’m sure, whites as well, but there are a lot of men missing in African American communities and in Latin communities. Salim Akil Read Quote
To me, Jefferson Pierce represented every side of me. I knew that I would be able to flesh him out. Salim Akil Read Quote
As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that other artists should do the same thing. Salim Akil Read Quote
I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends’ lives, and so I know what violence really is. Salim Akil Read Quote
