I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sur….

I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what kind of filmmaker I want to b….

Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Stre….

Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world….

I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues ar….

I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs an….

I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked ….

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films ….

When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do t….

When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly be….

When I was in film school at USC, I wrote my thesis script about a woman on Wall Street - specifically a woman who used to work at Morgan Stanley, so….

Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found an incredible partner in the inimitable ….

You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure ….

It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference..