I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

People keep telling me, "You don't like boys!" And I'm saying, "Wow, no, it's just that you're not used to them being objectified in movies, but women are so often objectified in movies and we don't care."

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.

The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're looking at it. And people who don't like it, who say, "Oh, it's not 'true' because you're looking at it in a stylized way" - it's a movie and it's fiction, so it's also a lot in the artistic direction that it is political.