My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

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.

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

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

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