Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me
By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.
I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
It will feel boring when you're bingeing.
I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.
. . . don't spoil my learning process!
I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.
Laughter is inner jogging.