My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.

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.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

I make movies I want to see.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.