I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

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

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.