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

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also joy there, and there's also something in unifying around the things that we do believe in.

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.

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

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.