When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I kind of look like every other girl walking around.

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.