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

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

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

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

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.