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You can't find jewelry on me.
Hollywood is silly sometimes.
One of my short films was about a boxer.
I thrive on impossible odds - always have.
Back-light is the cinematographer's friend.
You cannot make a living doing independent films.
I don't like seeing talented storytellers ruled by fear.
Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.
I'm not really the kind of girl that goes for action films.
I've pitched movies to all of the major studio heads in my time.
I was nominated for a live-action short-film Academy Award in 2003.
One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.
Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.
I say this often, but 'Supergirl' is the best experience in my entire career.
Whenever I go on a job interview, I always recommend Rachel Talalay. I love her.
Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.
To make an entire country as big as America aware of a movie costs so much money.
The great thing about a reboot is, you can learn from the past if you care enough.
The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.
If someone is poor in India, they should be able to watch the same films as rich people.
Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'
I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.
Until I was on Twitter, trust me: I was completely wiped off everybody's consciousness in Hollywood.
Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.
Football is a great environment for a movie because there is such passion for it and so much adrenaline.
It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.
In my other work as a self-defense instructor, I have taught the importance of listening to one's gut instincts.
Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.
I think we need to stop looking at the file-sharing community with disgust and instead ask ourselves what we can learn from them.
Bottom line - American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick and fast inclusion.
When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.
I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.
I am strangely attracted to the hooligan crowd. I find them actually less dangerous than some of the people I work with now in Hollywood.
I swear, if anyone near me even so much as whispers the sentence 'Women probably don't want to direct,' my fist will fly as a reflex action.
The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.
It's one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.
There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.
In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.
I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.
My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.
In L.A., every day, I see people taking other people's jobs, and they don't care whether that person is married and has two kids. People have no morals here.
Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories about us.
Everybody likes to drink a Coke once in a while; it's when we run out of everything else to drink and we're only left with Coke that we need to start worrying.
People have to fix whatever bias they have, and I see this bias consistently, all the time, towards women directors. They're just not being trusted with action.
I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.
I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.
Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'