"I have a beef in the way that youth are represented in media, and also in media literacy. I think in both cases, their agency’s kind of compromised."

"For them, it’s just like, okay they are hearing this, and they still don’t know how to situate it. They’re saying it, but are they saying this as an order to me? “I don’t want to be ordered!” or like should I just try to completely emulate what they’re saying? "

"I think a lot of the kids, like we said about hip-hop being so pervasive, they look at it and see this end product, and it’s so sexy. They’re like, “I want to make that!” It’s good for them to go through the production because they see that it’s not all that easy – it takes a lot of work and perseverance to make an end product that you’re satisfied with. "

"Yes. I think it changes what they are learning, and how they are learning. They have a space to be critical of their education system. They have a space to be vocal, and not feel like they are going to be penalized for that."

"If we can get in there and work with people, and give them skills and information and opportunities, I think that’s so exciting. And it’s way more exciting than working with forty-year-olds because they don’t get it. They might not get the same thing out of it."