I'm interested in social commentary.
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.
You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
I like to be strong.
I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
It's totally thrilling to direct.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
