Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human.

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating, no matter what.

To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.

I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.

Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve.