Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.