Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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

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.

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

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.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.