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.

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

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

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.