You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.