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.

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.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

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.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.