He is not by any means reticent about Jamaican culture or the future of the black entertainment industry. He personifies that of a 'recalitrante inteligentie'. He feels that a story should be told about the duality of our existence, without being didactic, it should have a subtle social message woven into it's mosaic. This desire to do something that is intrinsic to the British way of life is underpinned very clearly by his opinion of the future of Black directors, producers and writers. In America you have an economic base, an infrastructure.
Black people have economic clout.
Here we seem to be a little bit fragmented. Don not only cast the movie but he also rewrote the script with the scriptwriters. He was responsible for every part of the movie in one way or another and his influences reflect his diversity and lateral thinking - Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese were just two on a very long list, that he cited as film making influences. Parisian based musical director, Wally Badarou's involvement with Dancehall Queen came about through Christopher Blackwell. As Wally pointed out, his involvement with the film's soundtrack was primarily due to his being signed to Island Records and thereafter his availability in terms of time to devote to the project.