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I think I made good movies.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I learned a lesson which I did not heed: Do not put yourself in your movies. It is too much.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it is because it feels like it articulated something about how we are living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

A lot of times, we are just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it is not so good.

I did not have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I am a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I do want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It is so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

I think as an American society, when we are paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we do not want to see sad things at the movies.

All through my life what I have loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I have had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I love crying at romantic movies like The Notebook. I am always bawling.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I am into The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, obviously, and I have seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on Game of Thrones. Weirdly, it was not until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

It is like, if you can not focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then do not go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did Once Upon A Time for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I have done some movies because I would regret them if I did not, but other projects I have done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.