I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

Every man at three years old is half his height

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.