Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found an incredible partner in the inimitable writer/producer Laura Goode. I did it this time around by pairing with… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
When I was in film school at USC, I wrote my thesis script about a woman on Wall Street - specifically a woman who… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up.… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found an incredible… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
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