It is very important to support what you believe in.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.