There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.