Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.