I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.