I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.