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'Batman' was scary.
A mom can't afford to be sick.
I am so inspired by new media.
There's a bigger universe at hand.
I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
Success is really about your mindset.
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
It's easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.
I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.
A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.
When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.
Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.
It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.
I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.
I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.
Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.
In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.
Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.
Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.
I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.
A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.
Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".
Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.
It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.