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

I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

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

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.