Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

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

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.

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.