I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.