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.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

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 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.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

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