"Progress doesn’t go in a straight line. Representation moves forward, then retreats. It’s a journey. I don’t know wha…"

"Those excluding people of colour are robbing themselves – they just don’t realise it."

"Whatever choices you make in life, it’s OK – there’s more life, you know?"

"You can’t get a complete history of anything in two hours – particularly the slave trade."

"Ultimately it’s a case of sink or swim, ‘I’ve always had that “sink-or-swim” thing about my own career too,At difficu…"

"I think that’s something that you have to keep learning and recalibrating and experiencing through life."

"Making a film with a 99% Black female cast is great, but if we are not allowed to explore what our hairstyles will lo…"

"You don’t want to be a freedom fighter every time you enter a job."

"You know, always being positive, always wanting to try things, even if at first glance, it isn’t quite clear what the…"

"You can’t say Shakespeare has nothing to offer because he’s a white man."