The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.
Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. " I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.
I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.
My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.
It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.
A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.
Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. . . Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.