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I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely.

I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.