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To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

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.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.