I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.