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When I'm making movies, I think of it as a spiritual endeavor. It's about accessing the present.

Growing up, I yearned to have stories with women that looked like me. I was even more determined to get this film done because I needed to have something for my daughter that she's able to see when she gets to a certain age.

A lot of times, I'm telling stories about people who are from New York, but are pushed to the margins. With this film, I wanted to take the outsider perspective.

In many cases, documentaries are as good as the relationships that you develop with people, and that requires spending a lot of time. Not just time filming, but time just being, time experiencing things together, time to build up trust.

When you're making a scripted film, you have more tools at your disposal. You can have more control of the frame and the spatial relations of your characters can help you tell the story. In a doc, you can't always create those dynamics.