And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.