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

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

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

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

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

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

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.