Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art." But it's tricky.

In Smooth Talk it was a much more intuitive search - I was only 17 at the time, and I wasn't aware, as women are when they get a little older, that there's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks. We all have an attraction to what's different from us.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble