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I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.


When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.


When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.


You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.


You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.


You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.


When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.


I'm interested in social commentary.


I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.


I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.


I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.


I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.


I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.


I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.


I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.


Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.


Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.


I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.


I like high impact movies.


I don't know if I thrive in normal life.