When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.