I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.