I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being. I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there`s definitely such a thing as being too famous.
The re...
On her film Dawn of the Dead (2004) going up against Mel Gibson`s The Passion of the Christ (2004) head-to-head at the box office: "They`ve got only one guy who comes back from the dead. We`ve got millions".
[On being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Away From Her"] I`m in total disbelief. I`m thrilled but kind of in shock too. It`s been such a strange year and I`m bowled over by the life of the film. It`s more than I could have...
It was the opposite kind of love than we usually celebrate in films, which is new love without knowledge and without hardship. It`s the whole idea of love after life has had its way with you, and after you have kind of failed each other and things have go...
It takes terrible things to live well.
