Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.