Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.