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.

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

I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.