I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.