I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because it's just part of our culture. I've never experienced explicit, overt, confrontational sexism personally.

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.