Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

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

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

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

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

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