You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.