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

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

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

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.

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