It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

I'm not American, but I do have an opinion, and I think that right now, it is what it is, and I think the country needs to come together to say: What is the America we want to create right now? The same thing will happen on television now going forward if we do have a female president. It will be something that will be discussed.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.