It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

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

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.