When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people ar….

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that muc….

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can p….

Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards..

If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the settin….

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain..

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film..

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing..

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack..

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not….

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock..

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want..

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write..

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want..

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative..

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way..

For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because ….

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us..

Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting i….

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong..