I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.