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.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation piece long after this inauguration, whoever it was going to be.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

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

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."