It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

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

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.