When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

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

I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

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.

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

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

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