I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

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.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

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

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 don't believe in censorship in any form.