As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

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.

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

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