So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.