I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

I do not have very much office experience.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.