Im a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

Music has always helped me stay creative and grounded because I'm traveling and shooting and trying to understand other people. Music was something I could just sit in a room and make with my friends.

I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.