I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'