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

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy.

The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.

I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.

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