To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

- Josephine Decker

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whol…

- Josephine Decker

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to h…

- Josephine Decker

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

- Josephine Decker

I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagini…

- Josephine Decker

The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

- Josephine Decker