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Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.