You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.