I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

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

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

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.

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.

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