History's a resource.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.