“I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.”

“I love going to movies.”

“I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.”

“I do like to move and get physical in my movies.”

“I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.”

“I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.”

“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.”

“The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.”

“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”

“My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.”

“I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.”

“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.”

“The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.”

“A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.”

“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”

“I love it, man I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.”

“The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.”

“They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.”

“I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.”

“It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.”

“I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.”