Martin Van Peebles is a true renaissance man - an actor, director, writer of five French novels, journalist, composer, Wall Street trader, Air Force pilot and a number of other jobs that Peebles has held over his eight decades. The writer, producer, composer, director and star of the ground-breaking 1971 indie/black film Sweet, Sweetback's Baadasssss Song sits down to talk about his career and the movie that was initially screened in two theaters in the US but went on to gross 4.1 million at the box office.