The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me..

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be..

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking..

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point..

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and ….

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 ….

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change ….

I really got into filmmaking through photography..

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy..

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original..

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity..

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor..

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do..

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration..

The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking..

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision w….

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed..

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending..

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience..

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside….

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience..