Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.