1.  And to some degree, black directors also yearn to explore new themes.

2.  Another black director, Carl Franklin, said African-Americans were hardly alone in avoiding films that touch on their history or their lives.

3.  Barry Levinson wanted to do it, but I wanted a black director.

4.  Belafonte has kept his distance from the recent crop of young black directors.

5.  David Shaffer, the Washington attorney who represented the agents, said a black director would have made things better for black agents.

6.  I was skeptical, since I knew there had been no black directors in Hollywood.

7.  In the reviews of their films, black directors are almost inevitably compared to Spike Lee, even when their work has little stylistic relationship to his.

8.  It was also directed by Gordon Parks, the first black director to helm a big studio film.

9.  Much of the credit for this shift is given to the black directors who gave these actors their start.

10.  No black director ever did that to me.