I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.