That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.