My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

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

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

I'm not to say that my male counterparts do, but certainly, it feels very special to me because I know that so few women have had the opportunity to do what I'm doing, so I'm thrilled by it every day.

More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.

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