Danai Gurira

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that. ”

I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, 'You must tell me,' I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long - and joyful! - of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out. ”

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres. ”

I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source. ”

If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible. ”