I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.

Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.