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

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

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.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.