"As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth." — Rick Famuyiwa

Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age movie, but not wanting it to feel like a period piece completely about nostalgia but wanting it to feel like something that was relevant today and also forward-looking.

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

I'm probably going to be ashamed to say this... It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I had just enough money for the 'My Posse's on Broadway' single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money.

It was titled 'Confirmation' very purposefully. I wanted the film to be about that process - about how Judge Thomas and Anita Hill were thrown into a situation that was difficult for anyone to navigate, no matter what the truth was. It's hard to know what the truth is.

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As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.