The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

Juno MacGuff: [yelling through the house] Dad? Mac MacGuff: What? Juno MacGuff: Either I just peed my pants or um... Mac MacGuff: *Or*...? Juno MacGuff: THUNDERCATS ARE GO!

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.