It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."

For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.