For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

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.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

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.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.