It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!