I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.