Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.

People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.