My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. ….

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film..

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good..

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens….

There's no wrong way to experience a film..

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film..

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations..

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're….

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film..

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven..

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that….

I wonder what it's like out there?.

I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things..

If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film..

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic..

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the b….

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while..

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film)..

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant ob….

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film..

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and ….