Quotes from Kari Skogland

It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

I think if Marvel called me to do anything - if they called me to film the phone book - I would do it.

What's great about MCU and certainly the Marvel of it, everyone is unique, it's got its own DNA.

The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.

Experimentation is a big part of how you find the best of the best.

In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it's encouraged.

And that's one of the joys of the MCU universe... it has so many different paths and lanes and stories, and they don't shy away from neither the controversial nor the emotional.

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.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

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.

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?

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,' Lina Wertmuller's 'Swept Away,' 'Blade Runner.'

Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.

I have very eclectic tastes.

I don't really differentiate between screens so much anymore.

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

I've always pushed the envelope when it comes to action.

In L.A., there's a considerably different climate. It's more misogynistic, frankly.

Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.

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.

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.

The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.

Because if a woman can only direct women, and men can only direct men, and Black directors can only direct Black actors, then we are missing out on opening up voices to different perspectives.