Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

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

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

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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?

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.