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

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" You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear. "

" I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. "

" Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do. "

" The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take. "

Surround Yourself

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

" I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts. "

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

" For kids who are struggling, who are of faith, just reconciling yourself to the fact that God loves you, accepts you for who you are, is a big step in the healing, especially when your biological family is unaccepting of you. "

" You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life. "

" Our country is pathologically violent. "

" 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. "

" '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'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before. "

" New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment. "

" 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. "

" I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention. "

" With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.' "

" Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now. "

" I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down. "

" I'm interested in characters and relationships. "

" The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that. "

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

" My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur. "

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

" My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me. "

" Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen. "

" We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented. "

" I still want to do features, but on my own terms. "

" People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination. "

" I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards. "