Quote:
"One of the most powerful scenes in the film [Beans] depicts white men throwing rocks at the car in which Beans, her little sister and mom are sitting in a traffic jam, and the police don't do anything to stop the attack. So that is something that is directly out of my own experience. The way I shot it, I wanted us to stay inside the car and really have the audience experience it the way we did. It was very hard to revisit that time, to put it into words in the script. And I really did dread having to re-create it. [...] In that moment, as a child, I really felt like I didn't matter. Nobody was arrested that day. The cops did not stop anyone that day and to my 12-year-old brain [the message was] that I didn't matter. And by being able to tell the story, and share it, I'm telling that little girl that I do matter, our stories matter, what we experience matters."
-- Tracey Deer

Source:
Horst, Carole. "Tracey Deer's 'Beans' is a coming-of-age story with a difference." Interview with Tracey Deer. Variety, September 12, 2020.