I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

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.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

I don't even know how to swim!

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.