I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.

I put my films together in Europe and it kick-starts the financing when I'm attached as an actress. It makes it easier to move forward.

The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.