The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

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