I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.