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“Because if a woman can only direct women, and men can only direct men, and Black directors can only direct Black actors, then we are missing out on opening up voices to different perspectives.”
“I don't really differentiate between screens so much anymore.”
“I think I probably have a fairly signature style - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to shake that up, honestly.”
“That's what storytelling is. It's excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.”
“What's great about MCU and certainly the Marvel of it, everyone is unique, it's got its own DNA.”
“Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We need heroes who are relatable; we need heroes who are from this planet.”
“If we walk away thinking and having learned something, that as a filmmaker is what I set out to do.”
“You never create a scene around the Easter egg. The Easter egg is always just, 'Oh, there's an opportunity for something that the fans will enjoy if they can spot it.'”
“I was interested in the human journey, the conundrum of when the right and wrong of both sides get murky. You have to make some very strong choices that you'll have to live with.”
“I've always pushed the envelope when it comes to action.”
“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.”
“At the end of 'Endgame,' the shield was given to Sam and he said, 'It feels like it's someone else's.' That conversation, for me, was the most important conversation to have. A Black man picking up the shield - what was that going to look like?”
“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.”
“The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.”
“I've done a fair bit of work in the dramatic space researching extremism and how it operates and it gets inside your head and how people get radicalized by it. It's a very slippery slope.”
“The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World War, and it was an antifascist idea. You had this idea of it being a soldier-warrior. That was the construct for a hero.”