I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid