I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?""You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?