When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.