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.

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

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.

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

In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.

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

Cancer is everybody's cause.