You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

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