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.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

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.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

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.