To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.