“I’m going to start with one of my dearest friends, Karyn Kusama, and her brilliant movie Girlfight. One of my favorite directors. She’s also one of my favorite people. And the auteur theory gets knocked a bit, probably rightly so, because it sometimes implies the director does everything and they don’t, but I do fundamentally believe that a movie ends up reflecting, almost unintentionally, the spirit of the director. And I believe that with Karyn’s work absolutely. I feel like if you watch something like Jennifer’s Body and that wicked sense of humor, that’s in Karyn. You watch something like Destroyer and kind of the depths of the layers of Nicole Kidman’s character, that’s in Karyn too. And you watch Girlfight and it feels punk rock and it feels, at the same time, deeply, deeply human. Karyn is also one of the… one of the best cooks that I know, and I feel like that ties into… her movie is just this kind of… this beautiful manipulation of craft in order to have this emotional effect on the people that she’s serving it up to. And she served this one up. Girlfight.”
