Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.

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.

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 never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.