You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

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