I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.