L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.