I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

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.

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

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

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