The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.

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.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

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.