You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.