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.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

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

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.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

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

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.