Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being g….

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one st….

We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our ….

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women..

That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope peop….

I feel like I don't see myself as all that different from other humans as a woman, but I'm surprised by how frequently I'm asked to see myself differ….

Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors that we wanna put at the….

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition th….

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our o….

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into t….

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is ….

I don't want to make studio films if I am constantly fighting to assert some kind of leadership within the process. I'm not hired to be a really nice….

I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level,….

I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different ….

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence..

What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willi….

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revela….