Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.