00:05it's a very spiritual journey making a movie about someone like Michael Michael was a big
00:13influence in my career as a director seeing how he refused to get put in the box it's just a
00:19black
00:19artist only so to be a young black man in this country and see people that look like me able
00:25to
00:25achieve international fame it meant that there was no ceiling if they can do it someone like myself
00:31could do so as a director I've had that same battle of not getting put in the box when I
00:39used to do
00:39videos I didn't get the million dollar budgets I got the fifty thousand dollar budget but Michael
00:45was the first one that I saw really make an impact and cross over the way he did now I'm
00:50not a Jackson
00:51I can't do Michael but in my own field it gave me a lot of inspiration Michael's whole life was
00:58giving to people this joy of his voice I knew you were different the moment you were born you have
01:03a very special fact when I watched him on TV he was always larger than life for me as a
01:08filmmaker
01:09it wasn't a leap to see it in a cinematic way the Jackson family is the brand that's a Coca
01:14-Cola
01:16I don't think you can understand Michael Jackson as a human being unless you went back and go on a
01:21bit
01:21of a journey he was struggling between his love for his family and his love for his music I just
01:27have all these ideas in my head gotta get them out and do it Michael Michael's moves are the
01:37conversation he's having with the audience there's a language there's a connection that's happening
01:42he made music to transcend color and race I believe music could change the world that's
01:49what makes him so special that's where the magic lives Michael's life was epic but you have to
01:54still focus on the human being to understand who he was and it was a rare opportunity to be making
01:58a
01:59film with people that really love Michael my dream is for people to walk out feeling like they
02:07really understand Michael a little bit more
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