The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.

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

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.

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.

I'm not to say that my male counterparts do, but certainly, it feels very special to me because I know that so few women have had the opportunity to do what I'm doing, so I'm thrilled by it every day.