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.

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

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.

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

It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.

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 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.