9 Quotes by Reginald Hudlin

As successful as BET has been in the past 25 years, I knew that an aggressive investment in original programming -- in both senses of the word 'original' -- could turn BET from a beast to a monster. I wanted BET to be like Motown -- a soulful beat that the whole world dances to.

There should be a three-year moratorium on pitches of any variation of American Idol .

As BET looks for that next big signature hit that finds the network, animation is an obvious place for us to explore. When you look at the success of animation with our kind of demographic, it's a pretty consistent winner.

That show is not on television anywhere right now.

It's a very serious look at her life and her choices, and the consequences of those choices.

There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.