I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

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

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

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.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.