If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.