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.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

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

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