"I saw a terrific movie last night called Before the Flood, which is [Leonardo] DeCaprio’s movie about global warming, which is spectacular. It’s amazing — really, really amazing. Really blew me away, I thought it was incredible."

"My first introduction to Roxane Gay’s writing — it changed me. I saw myself eerily and perfectly reflected on the pages of her harrowing debut novel. I finally felt understood as I sat frozen reading this book."

"When I first saw it, I had never seen anything like it. I knew nothing about filmmaking. But I knew that the guy with that French name had made a film that was changing the rules."

"I’m about to sound like such a nerd. There’s a film I saw in college called Gabbeh. It’s about a Gabbeh — and I didn’t know this until I saw the film — it’s a kind of a carpet. It’s the story of this nomadic family that makes them, and it’s beautiful with all these amazing images — it’s very visual. I loved it and made my boyfriend at the time watch it — it was only like 10 minutes in. I did marry him anyway. [laughs] It’s amazing."

"“Suspiria,” “Hereditary,” “You Were Never Really Here,” “High Life,” and “Mandy” all transcend their genres in inspiring ways, as did the re-release of Bill Gunn’s “Ganja and Hess” (1973), which I saw for the first time."