That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."