Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

I don't think there is any one route to directing.... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.