"I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time."
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"I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire."
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"I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed."
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"The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking."
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"I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?"
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"I tell the stories that are of interest to me."
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"All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct."
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"Film school was a privilege I could not afford."
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"I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults."
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"Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through."
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"Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie."
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