It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

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

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.