I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

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

I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

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