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.

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

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

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

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.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.