Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.