I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

Let's let everything come to the surface, even with people we come in contact with for a moment. This situation can help us be a little bit more awake with each other.

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

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.

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

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.