As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

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.