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…

- Meera Menon

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.

- Meera Menon

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…

- Meera Menon

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…

- Meera Menon

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…

- Meera Menon

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 …

- Meera Menon

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…

- Meera Menon

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 …

- Meera Menon

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…

- Meera Menon