The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.

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.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some kind of radical change coming on the horizon. That's why it was important for us to get it out before the election.

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

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