I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
From Lisa Cholodenko
I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.
I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.
I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.
This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.
I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.
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