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

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

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.

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

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.