My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.