Brian De Palma

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.