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

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

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..

I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read ….

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..

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I….

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous….

We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad ….

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders i….

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

We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of us love t….

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them..

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv..

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….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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….