Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

You can start your day over anytime.

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.