Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

I have always had the same New Year resolutions: To stop smoking, to start wearing a bra, and to stop shopping.

I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years.

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.