Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that they all don't make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

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.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

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.