I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again ever….

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anythi….

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker..

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men..

I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmak….

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top..

These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also joy there, and ….

I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a w….

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about f….

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus….

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet..

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic..

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively..

I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner a….

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be fo….

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Ma….

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [fi….

More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international di….

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentaria….

There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films ….

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed..