For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody would ever take you seriously'. I've been wearing them ever since then!

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.