I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.

I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.