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

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

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.

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.