I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.