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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History informs where we are and how we got here.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020