We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.
I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute.
If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
