When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

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

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

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.