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.

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.

We're in this space right now where things are very precarious for women and things in the States are so terrifying. There are so many rollbacks of rights women have gained - and it can happen quickly, more quickly than we think. I think it would be good for us to think back and ahead to protect the space we're in.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

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 think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.