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" I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen. "

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" I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. "

" I guess I can be a little mischievous! "

" One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show. "

" I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess. "

" I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set. "

" A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory. "

" My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. "

" I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television. "

" I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present. "

" I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way. "

" I think I do more fiction than autobiography. "

" Representation is a sort of surveillance. "

" Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things. "

" I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way. "

" There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good. "

" I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent. "

" I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it. "

" I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way. "

" At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon. "

" My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements. "

" Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to. "

" I grew up in Altadena, California. "

" If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do. "

" There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't. "