There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.