The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.