I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.