Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.

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

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

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.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

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.