I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

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

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

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

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.