When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.

Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I'd like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I'd pay good money to see that.

The most challenging thing about love is sometimes we love someone who loves someone else.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

The follower is as important as the leader.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.