Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

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

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.

There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.