Kari Skogland

“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.”

“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 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 MCU, by definition, has quite a politically charged underpinning.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.”

“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.”

“I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or a French director that I'm just a director.”

“Grief is the great equalizer.”

“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 look at a lot of shows. I look at a really broad spectrum; I look at everything from David Lean to Lina Wertmuller. I look at a really unique and very arty spectrum.”

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

“'Men with Guns' - the producer's cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still very proud of the work.”

“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.”

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

“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.”