I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to make that - it's not a generality and I don't want to say that, but I just feel - I know I do the same thing. There are certain things that I just am not that interested in. Certain kinds of films - I just don't enter them.

So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.