I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

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

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

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.