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

If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

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

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.

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

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.