Director

Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in love and the rest was history.

I tend to use a lot of movement in both camera and characters, and I also tend to give characters a lot to physically do.

The world went tilted in a lovely way - suddenly, television was no longer television. It was like, 'Oh, my God, this is the new world!' I got to work with horses and cannons, and fight sequences and castles.

In L.A., there's a considerably different climate. It's more misogynistic, frankly.

I've always pushed the envelope when it comes to action.

Because if a woman can only direct women, and men can only direct men, and Black directors can only direct Black actors, then we are missing out on opening up voices to different perspectives.

If we walk away thinking and having learned something, that as a filmmaker is what I set out to do.

And you know, I've done a lot of research and I've been working on projects that embrace people who are tortured, or exploring what that is.

The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.

Experimentation is a big part of how you find the best of the best.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

Grief is the great equalizer.

I think what I'd love to see... I love muscular projects. I love the world of... I've worked in the action space quite a bit.

I've worked in male romance movies quite a bit. In fact, I think many years ago, I did a movie called 'Men With Guns,' which was very much in this bromance space. I've done a number of them.

Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,' Lina Wertmuller's 'Swept Away,' 'Blade Runner.'

The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World War, and it was an antifascist idea. You had this idea of it being a soldier-warrior. That was the construct for a hero.

The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.