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.

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

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

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.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

I always go into a blocking rehearsal with an anchor, with a blocking plan. And sometimes they'll step into the room and they'll be in costume and you're like, "That sucks, that's not going to work. Let's think of something new."

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.