The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

There is another movie I love that always sticks with me and influenced me called "Frankie" starring Diane Kruger as a model past her prime trying to make it work and going crazy from how she is treated.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

I work hard and support myself.