What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.