It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

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.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

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.

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

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

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