I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me.

Life choices and projects and photo shoots, I can't base them on anybody else but myself. I've done things where I'm like, Do I want my dad to see this? I don't know! But the best lesson I can teach my sisters, or any younger women, is Do what YOU do. Don't follow me, follow you.

A lot of times I don't know if I trust the director to tell that film's story. Or I think it's inappropriate for a male director to tell a female story, or a white director to tell a black story. Everyone walks away from a movie differently, because you're relating it to your own life.

Movies take a lot of time to make, so when I sign onto a project, I ask, do I want to dedicate a lot of time to this world? And more so, I look at what I need for me. Do I want to make a comedy? Do I want to make a drama? What do I need? Am I in the right headspace to do this role? And then politics come into consideration, too.