I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

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

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.

I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

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