You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

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.

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.