As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't ….

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't ….

Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened pa….

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," beca….

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 ….

Of course, the male-directed films make more money..

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 co….

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for ….

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives..

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see it from your perspectiv….

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are imm….

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person..

For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make….

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to….

Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. ….

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the o….

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….

Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Be….

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected..

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….

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..