But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.