My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.