I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.