It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.