I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.