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

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

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

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

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

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.

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.