As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I only grow hair in places that men like.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.