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.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

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 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.

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