I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.