I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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

I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.

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