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

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

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

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.

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.