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

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

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

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

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.

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

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.