I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.
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.
When you start out, you're hungry to take any job. I didn't go to film school - I went from high school to a show about high school and on to directing.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
I taught myself filmmaking on my own.
