From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.