Celebrated Kenyan movie maker Wanuri Kahiu has been featured in this month’s Vogue Italia, the Italian edition of Vogue Magazine. The tell-all-interview has Wanuri discussing both her personal and public life.

One excerpt reads, “I think I’m the black sheep in the family: my mother is a doctor, my father is a businessman and they are more conservative in a particular way…” She also gives some beauty advice, “A woman shouldn’t leave home without eye makeup, even before your clothes, they notice your eyes.”

Wanuri also pays tribute to Hollywood director Philip Noyce whom she worked with on movies like The Italian Job and Catch a Fire.

“He inspired me and in that film I really learned more than in any film school and I realized what it means to work with actors and directing it was really first training.”

What the future holds for her? “I’m very hopeful about the future, but knowing that I make a difference myself. I believe that people can plant trees and should conserve, recycle and re-use things. We have to be careful and sensitive; like in my film Pumzi, we have to be the mother of Mother Nature and if we are not, then she will stop mothering us.”