[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.