People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.