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

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.

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

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

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.

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

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