The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.