I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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 have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.