I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.