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

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.

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

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.