What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

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

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

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.