I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.

Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.