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

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.