There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain..

I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. Y….

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity..

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children..

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself..

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors..

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter..

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would reall….

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, ….

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. T….

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines..

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport..

I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how the….

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another..

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny p….

The quality of life decreases with heightened security..

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach..

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. We learn ho….

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded….