I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."