I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing