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.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

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

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

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

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.