The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people … - Kasi Lemmons

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To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

Kasi Lemmons

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.

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