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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

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.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

All my films are about kind of being seen to be one thing when you're actually something else, and the power of the female spirit to make things work your way on your terms. Which is what I do.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.