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

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

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

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

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 love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.