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I’ve always pushed the envelope when it comes to action.
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.
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.
That’s what storytelling is. It’s excising the demons and taking a look at the hard subjects.
I think I probably have a fairly signature style – I tend to have a certain aesthetic – although I try to shake that up, honestly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If a Canadian novel hasn’t been a box-office success, say, ‘The Republic of Love,’ then producers are reluctant to try again.
I think what I’d love to see… I love muscular projects. I love the world of… I’ve worked in the action space quite a bit.
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.
And often, once you’ve done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.
Grief is the great equalizer.
The world went tilted in a lovely way – suddenly, television was no longer television. It was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the new world!’ I got to work with horses and cannons, and fight sequences and castles.
The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.
The MCU, by definition, has quite a politically charged underpinning.
On ‘Handmaid’s’ you are given complete freedom – unlike some shows where you’re really expected just to ‘fold in’ and ‘deliver the script’ and ‘put the camera where we normally put the camera.’
The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.
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 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.
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.
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.
It’s small things like that – a pen, or being able to communicate freely – that we should always cherish.
Obviously with any creative project you never know how it’s going to land.
I think, as Canadians, that’s just as important as our peacekeeping service: We go out and find these stories that other people are not willing to tell.
In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it’s encouraged.
Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you’re trying to discover a character and actualize it.
I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.
When you have violence, there’s victims, which entertainment tends not to explore that as much.
I don’t really differentiate between screens so much anymore.
I have very eclectic tastes.
If we walk away thinking and having learned something, that as a filmmaker is what I set out to do.
‘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.
When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.
