I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.