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

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

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.

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.

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