I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

I am not anti-man. I am married to a man... I have a father and a brother... I love men. But there is something really lacking when Cake is nominated. How does Julianne Moore win for Best Actress but her film isn't nominated for Best Screenplay? How does Gone Girl become such a critically-acclaimed and box-office hit but its scriptwriter, Gillian Flynn, isn't nominated for Best screenplay. It's disgusting!