“I feel like we’re still way, way behind. Like, enormously behind. But I also feel hopeful and I’m a fighter and so I’ll keep on fighting. I’m very much in it to win it. I’m clawing forward and not in it to win it for myself, but for my daughter … for a new generation. All I want is to make life better for them and that’s the whole reason I got into filmmaking in the first place. It’s such a powerful medium and…that’s what keeps me going. It’s not an easy life, but all I have to do is think of future generations.” “If we don’t talk about it, we could go backwards — we don’t want to be complacent, we don’t want it to be like, some of us got here, so we’re going to give up on the rest of you. But soon, hopefully, we’re just filmmakers. We don’t think of ourselves as different, so I think it’s going in a really great direction and hopefully it’ll no longer be a situation where we’re counting and just celebrating. Hopefully we’re entering a time in world history where we’re all just beings of light shooting our films and writing our music and coming from our souls, and that’s all people will be able to see.”

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