I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~