Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.