All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

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.

I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

I'm not to say that my male counterparts do, but certainly, it feels very special to me because I know that so few women have had the opportunity to do what I'm doing, so I'm thrilled by it every day.

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

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.