I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.