I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.

There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.

I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.

Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.