There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

I know [people talk about sex now all the time] But do they really talk about it personally?

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.