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As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

I made my first movie when I was five.

I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.