When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

I am a maker of useful things.