With Beloved, I was given the opportunity to have very intense personal feelings about race relations and the state of racial affairs in my country and indeed the world.
Become a film-maker. The more radical people would say, if you can't buy one, steal one, whatever, but just start filming, because then you're a film-maker.
Acting is by far and away the toughest job, in terms of film-making and maybe even the arts. How they do it I don't know, but they have to be allowed to get their satisfaction.