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

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

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

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

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.