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I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.

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I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

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I tend to be collaborative, and I want to hear other people's ideas. Especially with actors, I want them to feel like they can breathe life into their characters.

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I never liked 'Donnie Darko' quite as much as my film school peers.

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'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.

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I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

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I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere.

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The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

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I talk about being a 'what' to people. Like, being gay in mainstream society is a different kind of 'what' than being black. They don't always jive. It's confusing and leads to these really awkward personal stories that have just been in me for awhile.

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The thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 7th, 1983

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