Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.

Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I've had this opportunity to get some of my financing out of Europe, which has helped tremendously, so I'm not completely dependent on the studio system or on U.S. financing.

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

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

It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.