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

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

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

I like to do all kinds of films.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.