It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like there was impulse they wanted to follow, if it was taking the scene out of order or adding something, that you should always feel free to do that.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.