The truth is I've always been a fan of hers,

Chick flick or chick lit diminishes it and is sort of insulting to women and men,

I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so much? And I realized that it reminded me a lot of my relationship with my brother - two people who took very different routes to get to a very similar place.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I always wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles.

A persona like Slim Shady is artificial, you hide behind it. It takes great courage to tear yourself open, to give the sort of performance I wanted. He found it wearing.

A theme that has always interested me is the difference between how thing appear and how they are. Image versus reality, etc.

This is the third time I've brought a movie to the Toronto festival,

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.