Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.