If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

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

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

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