So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.