The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is..

It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex al….

I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes ab….

If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I l….

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go..

I always wonder about psychopaths, just because they have no empathy, does that necessarily mean they enjoy being cruel? Because we all know people w….

I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good expe….

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn..

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and….

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary..

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted..

Nature is a series of murders..

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed..

I love British female directors lately..

I love when a director says, "I don't know.".

I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you..

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know..