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'….

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the….

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true chan….

Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, some….

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy..

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level..

What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's offic….

I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and….

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege ….

Stop asking, start doing..

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Opra….

I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always….

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but….

I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole convers….

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative t….

Film school was a privilege I could not afford..

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people..

Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his fri….

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was ….

True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and ….

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is..