Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

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?

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.