I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.