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

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

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.

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.

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

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.