When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.