You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States.

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