If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

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

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