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.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That's just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That's what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.

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

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

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.

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.