My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.