The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there..

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut..

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces..

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation..

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years..

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its ca….

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's real….

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality..

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment..

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut..

Women have a greater verbal capacity..

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot..

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects..

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity..

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made..

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women..

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all..

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans..

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and….

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capac….

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape..