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

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

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

" I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about. "

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

" I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally. "

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

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

" I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville. "

" 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 started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU. "

" I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that. "

" My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains. "

" I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. "

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

" I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible. "

" Our country is pathologically violent. "

" Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate. "