Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream menta….

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-d….

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 ….

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….

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..

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing..

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

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

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..

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….

You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and ….

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….

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

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