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

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

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!).

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

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.

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.

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