As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

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.

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

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

For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.