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" You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look. "

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

" You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country. "

" Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer. "

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

" For me, Sundance always felt big. It's not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen. "

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

" Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way. "

" 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. "

" I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home. "

" For each character, I try to understand what is driving them. "

" 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. "

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

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

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