I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

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

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

[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.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.