I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

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

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

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

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

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.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.