I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.