What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.