Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.