I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
I’m a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.
I’m quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.
I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.
People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I’m a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.
I definitely didn’t fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.
I didn’t really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.
I actually love Scorsese comedies. He’s an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.
Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I’ve done it for so many years, it’s still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you’re on camera. You’re filmed and you’re being observed. It’s a bit of a violation each time.
I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don’t bash them afterward. It’s the hardest to be a woman.
Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that’s the only thing in common throughout the world.
It’s a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
I’m comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I’m like a chameleon. If a country doesn’t have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I’m a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.
I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
I guess when you’re young, you believe that you’ll meet many people with whom you’ll connect, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.
You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost.
Well, it must have been one hell of a night we’re about to have.