If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself..

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it..

I tell the stories that are of interest to me..

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am..

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist..

If you have the ability to do something, you should do it..

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story..

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you..

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection ….

Don't wait for permission to do something creative..

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy..

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if….

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true..

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she ….

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults..

The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact….

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive..

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films..

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that….

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible..

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I'….