If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.