I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

Be decisive and persevere. You have to recognize that, at the end of the day, no one really cares if you make another movie. That decision falls on you. You're the leader of your own destiny and the one person who can't walk away.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.