My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.

When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.