I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.