Director

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the true creative spirit.

I think I probably have a fairly signature style - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to shake that up, honestly.

Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What's the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?

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.

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.

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.

And that's one of the joys of the MCU universe... it has so many different paths and lanes and stories, and they don't shy away from neither the controversial nor the emotional.

In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it's encouraged.

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

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.

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

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

Extreme sports has changed our aesthetics because they slap cameras all over the place and we really know that they are jumping out of a plane or parachuting or whatever it is they're doing.

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the true creative spirit.

They just take on great stories and they tell great stories. That's their only objective, at least that's been my experience, so as a result we were encouraged to push the envelope and not hold back. I hugely respect Marvel for that position.

That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.

When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.

What is Captain America's relevance? Is there a Captain America that makes any sense anymore? All of those questions I thought were very topically important to not just discuss but to go on a real exploration in a deep dive sort of way.