It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

if you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from and why you are here on this beautiful planet.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.