Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

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

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

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

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

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

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

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

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.

Those people make us strong and then valuable, whom we do not like initially.

Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.

Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.

Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.