I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or 'too much information': publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.