I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.