I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, "Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go!" It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.