I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.
Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.
I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.
I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.
One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.
I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.
My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.
It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching for a more targeted audience.
I grew up in Altadena, California.
I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.
A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
