You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.