Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.