Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

The last film is always the most important.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.