Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.

Love makes everybody a victim because it's something you can't control. You can't control how you feel or what you're going through when you're doing it.

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.

I genuinely believe that everything happens for a reason.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen

I'm happy that I've raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.

I am happiest when I am alone.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .