Competed with ex-husband James Cameron for the Best Director Oscar in 2010. This marked the first time that (ex-) spouses were nominated alongside each other in this category. She went on to win the award--the first woman director to do so.
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose
to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my
gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what
directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it
or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's
just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.
