Director

When you have violence, there's victims, which entertainment tends not to explore that as much.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

I think, as Canadians, that's just as important as our peacekeeping service: We go out and find these stories that other people are not willing to tell.

The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.

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.

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.'

I don't think there's ever a story the MCU tells that couldn't be expanded. They always leave it with some lovely doors that get opened.

I never felt it wasn't mine. But I was also very respectful of not knowing what I didn't know. Because the Marvel Cinematic Universe is very deep, and unless you live in it you can't possibly know it all.

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.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

I studied a lot of extreme sports videos, like where they put the cameras. With the light cameras now, with the Go-Pro versions of it, you can put them anywhere.

We don't necessarily ever dig into consequences, right? We have the violent act and then cinematically we tend to walk away and we forget that there's collateral damage.

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.

I have very eclectic tastes.

Obviously with any creative project you never know how it's going to land.

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

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

It's small things like that - a pen, or being able to communicate freely - that we should always cherish.

I don't really differentiate between screens so much anymore.

We need heroes who are relatable; we need heroes who are from this planet.