Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

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

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

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.

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.

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