I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

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.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.