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" I think art always comments on the time and place it was created. "

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" To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for. "

" If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are. "

" I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child. "

" For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen. "

" I think art breaks down otherness. "

" I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write. "

" Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management. "

" Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse. "

" Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it. "

" I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.' "

" Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.' "

" There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. "

" Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes. "

" Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. "

" When I'm on set, I know what I want. "

" I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories! "

" Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties. "

" I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. "

" Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody. "

" To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody. "

" History informs where we are and how we got here. "

" I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.' "

" Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle. "

" When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself. "

" 'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience. "

" I can't put anything out that's not me. "

" As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it. "

" Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to. "