It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.