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.

Everyone has a story.

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

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.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.