Tamra Davis

I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.